Freshman Admission Degree Seeking Students

Applying for an undergraduate degree program? Just follow our admissions checklist to be certain we have everything we need to process your application:

Undergraduate Requirements

In accordance with Board of Governors regulations 6.002 the Admissions Office may make alternative admissions decisions. Read here for more information. The Florida Board of Governors sets minimum eligibility criteria (listed below) for its eleven member institutions.

The requirements include the following:

Graduation from an accredited secondary school or the successful completion of the GED

FIU recalculates the high school grade point average based on grades earned only in academic courses. Additionally, weight is assigned to grades earned in honors, advanced placement, and International Baccalaureate courses.

Completion of 18 academic units in a college preparatory curriculum distributed in the following way

4 units of English (3 units must include a substantial writing component)

4 units of mathematics (Algebra I or higher)

3 units of natural science (2 with laboratories)

3 units of social sciences

2 units of the same foreign language

2 units of academic electives

Please note, for Florida High School Graduates, FIU honors both the new three-year 18-credit standard college preparatory program and the traditional four-year 24 credit standard program.

Completion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT I) or American College Test (ACT)

The SAT I and ACT admissions profile of admitted students is below. Please refer to the below profile as general information. All interested students are encouraged to apply for consideration and should not use these scores to self-select out of the application and admission process. Students are admitted with scores below this range, and students with higher scores are not guaranteed admission.

Mid 50% range test scores for accepted Fall 2012 SAT

1630 – 1810 (2400 maximum)

Mid 50% range test scores for accepted Fall 2012 ACT

23 - 26 (36 maximum)

Mid 50% GPA range for accepted fall 2012

3.5 – 4.1 (FIU Weighted)

After being admitted into FIU, First Time in College students must satisfy all of the below prerequisites.

Application Status

To view the status of your application you will need your FIU Panther ID to log into your existing account. Please allow 2-3 business days to view your application status.

If you are a first time user, please visit MyAccounts. Log in with your Panther ID and password (your initial password is your date of birth in DDMonYYYY format, case sensitive. For example, November 02, 2013 would be 02Nov2013). You will be prompted to change your password. After you have changed your password, you may log in to view your application status at MyFIU. If you're not sure what your Panther ID is, visit the Panther ID Lookup.